node. js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio released

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/07/28/node-js-tools-1-2-visual-studio-2015/

What time is it?! Time to announce this our next stable release of node. JS Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio (Ntvs) are available for download! Ntvs 1.2 supports Visual Studio (including the free Visual Studio Community Edition and Express for Web).

With node. js Tools for Visual Studio, we strive the it easier than ever to build Enterprise-grade node. JS applications By supporting-every stage of your Application-from powerful code completions, to advanced debugging and profiling, To unit testing, cloud deployment, and much, much more.

What's new in v1.2?

Apart from support for node. js v6.x and numerous bug fixes all across the product, we've focused on increasing developer P Roductivity with the following improvements.

Faster, better ES6 IntelliSense

Whether were running into performance issues or craving the latest and greatest JavaScript goodness, the new ES6 Intel Lisense experience is now on by default, and better than ever! The new ES6 IntelliSense engine takes advantage of type definition files to provide better and more performant Intellisens E. This is applicable for the most popular node. JS frameworks, such as Commander, Express, JQuery and Knockout.

And, of course, everything just works. Whenever you include a new NPM package, the associated "typings" would be automatically downloaded to your project, which W Ill enable you to see relevant completions next time you ' require ' a module.

That's said, while we hope your love the new IntelliSense features, we realize it's a significant departure from our Earli ER static analysis engine. So we continue to provide the as a fallback option as we continue to iterate on this experience.

More reliable debugging

Advanced debugging is the cornerstone of Ntvs, we have made it even better by addressing several user-reported issues. So if breakpoints weren ' t working properly sometimes, or things were generally inconsistent, being sure to download this rele ASE to get the latest fixes!

Improved performance

Hangs and crashes is a drag, but not anymore! This release provides significantly improved stability and performance, including reducing out-of-memory crashes seen in P Rior versions. We ' ve also made several improvements to our project system, so can expect improved project load times (especially Duri Ng "Add from Existing Code").

Still running into problems? Please, file a issue on GitHub so we can work together to resolve it!

Improved Unit testing Experiences

While it's generally best practice to avoid writing bugs altogether, some of us is not omniscient, and find unit tests to be pretty helpful. So we've made some improvements to the unit testing experience, including adding tape support thanks to @jcansdale (#989).

Want support for your favorite test framework? Let us Know–we is able to include it in the next update of Ntvs. Or better yet, just submit a PR on github!

Get started with node. JS Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio

Download node. JS Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio to get started developing node. js applications in Visual Studio. And as always, for comments, compliments, or complaints, file an issue, join us on Gitter, or shoot us a tweet. We ' d love to hear your feedback, especially if it comes in the form of a pull request.

Lastly, a special thanks to our Community–ntvs are a free and open source project, and this release simply would not having been possible without your support, so thank-you, thank-you, thank-everyone who's already active on our GitHub rep O, and looking forward to meeting all of the just clicked this link! J

onwards!

node. js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio released